Totemic

Wonderful stage 4 loadshedding. Took the chance to give the girls a quick check. First 3 eliminated. Let's see how long the other 6 last. The male Pics of the remaining 6 when the lights come back on

With so many strains readily available around the world, rare really isn't rare anymore...

Yeah it's the art that pushed the price... Not the seeds

Space has always been an issue. Less so now than a few years ago, but I've always tried to compensate for this by making arrangements with local growers around me, and I have patches of 50 here and patches of 100 there With the polyhybrids I have expanded the gene pool I can work with tremendously. There will be countless new pheno expressions as I take each line to F2 and on I'm not focused on any single trait, rather looking for anything that is a positive step forward.

That male he found though

Not something I've been monitoring but it does make sense that the bigger the area that can photosynthesis the quicker the perceived growth would be

Hey man, My history with plant breeding predates breeding cannabis, and I used to work with pepper plants. I started growing cannabis 2010, and by 2012 started tinkering with breeding, with limited success, as I was working with landrace bag seeds. By end 2013 though I had settled very seriously into breeding my Chocolope NL line, and spent a few years just working that one line, really getting to know it. I made a few other crosses in that time too, but they never got the attention the CNL did. Started out crossing the CNL line in 2018. Also started making feminized seeds in 2018, and applying what I've learnt over the years to other strains. Last year I decided that im taking it to another challenging level, to create a few poly hybrids to navigate what those lines will bring to possible backcrosses onto both my CNL and Chocolate Gelato lines.

Quite right. This may be a mutation of sort, but more than likely damage of some sort to the growing tip. Whorled phylotaxy is a genetic mutation and is present in the embryo already, and will develop the whorl from the cotyledon leaves onwards.

Let's talk stress testing. It's the one most important thing that many of the newer breeders aren't doing. Stress testing should be considered as part of your selection process. I stress test all my plants throughout their life cycle in an attempt to get them to hermi on me. Those plants that survive the stress I consider sexually stable. Stress testing should be an indoor endeavor. These plants really don't express their hermi nature easily outdoors. Intense light All my plants are blasted with more light than they are comfortable with from germination Interrupted dark I Interrupt the dark cycle a few times during the first few weeks of Flowering. pH issues This is one I don't really do as causing pH swings in soil is hard to come back from. Compared to coco/Hydro. Over feeding Simply over feeding N, running the soil hot. Over/under watering Self explanatory. I run my plants on a wet/dry cycle. When I say dry I mean the plant is wilting from dryness. My plants may look healthy and perfectly grown, but they are being grown at their uppermost limits. These are all the most common stresses that plants are likely to be exposed to by new growers or just in general. If you are breeding and you are not doing this with your plants, you are skipping a crucial step in eliminating hermi plants.

Yeah, I would approach these girls differently if I was pushing for max yield, although they'll probably still hit a good yield. To me it's important to illustrate that when you are pheno hunting, it's one thing to saturate a space with as many little plants as possible in tiny pots and push single colas on a stick of a stalk if you are only interested in a floral outcome. To me pheno hunting is more a whole plant experience, with its natural expression fully expressed. Part of breeding is also being ruthless with plant selection. On this run only 2 males are still around, and 9 females, so 11 of the 25 left. Any one or more of these girls could go hermi on me in the next few weeks, or show traits I'm not interested in. I may not even find a keeper this round. I may find a few.

I'm only interested in the more compact phenos for this F2 run. I may want to do a separate run on the stretched pheno group at a later time. They are females though and don't just want to kill them. They will simply take up too much space in the next 3 weeks. Even these 9 are going to compete in no time flat.

Day 1 of 12/12. And we are down to 9. Removed the 4 taller phenos that were back row. They'll flower outdoors. The remaining 9 are +/- 40cm tall, and pushing the 14th node at 7 weeks.

Decent canopy... Hope stretch doesn't get away from you. The zurple I ran responded well to the lst and that absorbed stretch.

Thanks man. All thanks to FF premium, biobizz, and light from @Light It Up Really have not been spending too much time with them at all. They only get attention when they need water. Once I flip to flower and the phenos really start expressing is when I'm up in their face all day every day with the loupe lol

Sunday IPM and defoliation day. All the fan leaves have been stripped except the top few in prep for flip. Real nice little Christmas tree structures. Clones taken. Before After

Not necessarily a mutation. But yeah I've had a few plants from different strains do that. Simple damage to the growing tip could have caused it

In the doses you are giving the MPK I have not noticed damage to the micro herd, in both my own soil mix and on FF premium. You are not getting the benefit of the P solubilizing micro organisms working though since the P you are providing is already plant available and can can be immediately taken up. While most mineral forms of P found in your rock dust ammendments are made available at an incredibly slow rate.

After recently getting indirect feedback from a grower who measures his input EC to his organics, found his EC reading was lower than usual so he bumped up the EC using only the bloom blend and probably gave 3 or 4 times the recommended dose. That quite simply locked his plants up. This bloom blend does not work on its own. You have to use a fish hydrolysate and mollases. This blend being partly salts, is meant to be used as follows: 1ml fish hydrolysate, 1ml molasses, and 1ml of this bloom blend per 1l of water, with every watering. From the 3rd week of flower. You also don't raise the dose as you go through peak Flowering. The dosage stays the same. It's a matter of constant micro fertigation to sustain a healthy plant.... Being over eager and over feeding does not mean a yield increase

Thanks. Never knew males produced trichomes Good breeding males push globular or standing trichomes... The latter being sought-after.

Apologies for the kak question but what am I looking at here, besides it being a male? What is it in the picture that excites you? The standing trichomes that are developing

Yeah man, you'll never see me register my crosses for plant rights... I want to share my stuff not protect it, or stop other people from growing them out, and working them further. It would just be a shame if someone bought those seeds expecting strong Thai sativa influence as I've bred in, and only getting a GSC that has been renamed. But this situation has reminded me of the importance of test data, and something that will become a norm with my breeding practices. The science is becoming accessible and I'll be using it

When your male starts doing this Can't wait to see his expression in a week or so more...

Whatever the case, doesn't matter much... If they actually have the right genetics there and it's mine, I hope they work magic with their line

With the legal changes happening world wide one after the other, the seed market is going to completely change over the next few years, and if breeders aren't adapting or scaling to meet ever increasing demand for affordable quality seed, then they may not be around for long.